Experts

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

A violent end to the Libyan crisis also seems unlikely in the near term, as the forces in the country’s east will have trouble organizing an effective attack on Tripoli without the support of Russia, whose military has other things in sight

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Independent Analyst

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

University of Birmingham

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association